Launches
ON RECORD17MISSIONS
14 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1958, the most recent 2025.
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November 8 in spaceflight
17 orbital launches flew on November 8, the earliest of them in 1958, and 14 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on November 8. Below are the pictures NASA published on November 8 in 1 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.
Recorded events
IN THE RECORD1ENTRY
Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 2011 onward.
Pictures from this date
PUBLISHED1IMAGE
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for November 8, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.
Published on November 8
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, for this calendar date in each of the last several years.
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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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What happened on November 8
2011
The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
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Every launch on November 8
17 launches
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- 2025Long March 11 | Shiyan 32 01-03CASCSUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-27SpXSUCCESS
- 2017Vega | Mohammed VI-AASASUCCESS
- 2015Long March 4B | Yaogan-28CASCSUCCESS
- 2011Zenit 2M | Fobos-Grunt & Yinghuo-1RFSAFAILURE
- 2006Proton-M Briz-M | Badr 4KhSCSUCCESS
- 2005Zenit | INMARSAT 4 F2SLSUCCESS
- 2004Soyuz 2.1a | GVM OblikVKSSUCCESS
- 1997Titan 401A Centaur | NROL-4USAFSUCCESS
- 1991Titan 403A | SLDCOM 2USAFSUCCESS
- 1984Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-ALSOCSUCCESS
- 1969Scout B | AzurDLRSUCCESS
- 1968Thor Delta E1 | Pioneer 9USAFSUCCESS
- 1966Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4A 37USAFSUCCESS
- 1965Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 23USAFSUCCESS
- 1960Little Joe | LJ-5NASAFAILURE
- 1958Thor Able I | Pioneer 2ABMAFAILURE
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Cosmos — Carl Sagan
Still the best single argument for why any of this matters, and it leaves the arithmetic in. For a reader who wants the science, not just the awe.
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Pale Blue Dot — Carl Sagan
The case for leaving Earth, written by someone unsentimental about how hard that is. Suits readers who want the argument rather than the poster.
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Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
Hard-SF problem solving in The Martian's key — for anyone who liked the engineering more than the peril. The only novel on this list.
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Sources and licences
Event text and thumbnails come from Wikipedia and are used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Images are drawn only from Wikimedia Commons, which does not accept non-free content — each thumbnail links to its file page, where its licence and author are recorded.
Launch records are from The Space Devs’ Launch Library 2. Pictures are NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day; NASA imagery is generally not subject to copyright, but individual APOD entries are frequently the property of the photographer, and each caption says which applies.